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Aircraft Sustainment and Repair
Coordinators: Jones Rhys, Baker A.A., Matthews Neil, Champagne Victor K.
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Aircraft Sustainment and Repair is a one-stop-shop for practitioners and researchers in the field of aircraft sustainment, adhesively bonded aircraft joints, bonded composites repairs, and the application of cold spray to military and civil aircraft. Outlining the state-of-the-art in aircraft sustainment, this book covers the use of quantitative fractography to determine the in-service crack length versus flight hours curve, the effect of intergranular cracking on structural integrity and the structural significance of corrosion. The book additionally illustrates the potential of composite repairs and SPD applications to metallic airframes.
1. Introduction and overview 2. Fatigue requirements for aircraft structures 3. Typical fatigue-initiating discontinuities in metallic aircraft structures 4. Practical computational fracture mechanics for aircraft structural integrity 5. Crack growth from naturally occurring material discontinuities 6. Adhesively bonded repair/reinforcement of metallic airframe components: materials, processes, design and proposed through-life management 7. Surface treatment and repair bonding 8. Analysis, design and assessment of composite repairs to operational aircraft 9. Repair of multi-site damage in civil transport aircraft - an example of the damage tolerant design of composite repairs 10. The F111C wing pivot fitting repair and implications for the design/assessment of bonded joints and composite repairs 11. Development and validation of bonded composite doubler repairs for commercial aircraft 12. Computing the growth of naturally-occuring disbonds in adhesively-bonded joints 13. Delamination growth in polymer-matrix fibre composites and the use of fracture mechanics data for material characterisation and life prediction 14. Introduction to supersonic particle deposition 15. Additive metal technologies for aerospace sustainment 16. Applications of SPD to enhance the structural integrity of corroded airframes 17. Application of SPD to enhance the structural integrity of fuseage skins and centre barells 18. Multiplicative manufacturing and aircraft sustainment
Alan Baker is a Senior Research Consultant in Advanced Composite Structures - Australia and Honorary Research Fellow, Aerospace Composite Structures in Aerospace Division, Defense Science and Technology Group. He has edited and contributed to several books, chapters in books and many scientific papers on composites and composite repair technology. He co-edited and extensively contributed to the highly popular books Composite Materials for Aircraft Structures and Advances in Bonded Composite Repairs for Metallic Aircraft Structure. Dr. Baker has over 40 years of experience in advanced composites including 10 years in the Rolls Royce UK Advanced Research Laboratory; he is particularly recognized for pioneering work on bonded composite repair of metallic aircraft components for which he has received several major awards.
Neil Matthews is the Head of Research
Neil Matthews is the Head of Research and Technology at RUAG Australia, and holds a Master of Aircraft Design from Cranfield University (UK) Neil has been involved in Aircraft Engineering sustainment for the nearly 40 years both as a serving Air Force Officer in the
- Covers corrosion damage assessment and management in aircraft structures
- Includes a key chapter on U.S. developments in the emerging field of supersonic particle deposition (SPD)
- Shows how to design and assess the potential benefits of both bonded composite repairs and SPD repairs to metallic aircraft structures to meet the damage tolerance requirements inherent in FAA ac 20-107b and the U.S. Joint Services